Buy this book on-line GUEST, MONTAGUE & BOULTON, WILLIAM B**: : MEMORIALS OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON.**LONDON.JOHN MURRAY,1903.
UK,thick 8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn,but Earl of Edgcumbe's b/w armorial,library bookplate pasted to fep, minus dw/dj - as issued? Publisher's original blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt rope decoration and lettering to upper board and spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and bumping to edges and lower corners.Upper board is slightly speckled with light discolouration towards it's outer edges, rear board completely speckled with similar fault.Top edge gilt,fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed and slightly aged and grubbed with some minimal foxing/spotting; contents though,bright,tight and largely clean and fox-free.Endpapers affected by light,off-set foxing.UK,thick 8vo HB,1st edn,viii-xpp+4-525pp [paginated] includes contents+illus lists/tables,15 chapters, 45 assorted b/w illustrations/drawings/prints/ photographs,10 of which are tissued-guarded (8 portraits+2 engravings) - all called for,members list (1815-1901),yacht list, naval honorary members list,an appendix,an index; plus[unpaginated] half-title+title pages,tissue-guarded frntis,dedication and 2pp blanks to rear.
The Royal Yacht Squadron Memorials of its
members,with an enquiry into the history of yachting and its development in the Solent; and a complete list of members,with their yachts from the foundation of the Club to the present times from the Official Records.Montague Guest is the RYS's librarian.
Across the water from the historic city of Plymouth lies the great Cornish House of Mount Edgcumbe.The house was built between 1547 and 1553 for the renowned Edgcumbe family of Cotehele and became the home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe.For the first time in England a house was built to take advantage of the wonderful situation and views rather than as a defensive house built around a courtyard.
The banqueting hall adjoining the house was damaged in the Civil War,and the house was to see many changes to its structure over the years,none more dramatic than in 1941,when the house was gutted by enemy action.1958 saw the beginning of reconstruction,when the 6th Earl restored the house to its original 16th century proportions.In 1971 the house together with 865 acres was sold to Cornwall County and Plymouth City Councils.It has been open to the general public on a regular basis since 1988.
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